Caroline Wiess Law Building Lectures Year of Friday, October 4, 2024-Friday, October 3, 2025
Living with the Gods: Art, Beliefs, and Peoples Through January 20, 2025
Exploring 3,000 years of spiritual belief and practice, the expansive Living with the Godsfeatures more than 200 objects from the MFAH collections, along with exceptional loans from museums and …
05 Dec Thu / 2024
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Harriet Stratis, speaker / Paul Gauguin, 1898–99, Human miseries (Misères humaines) from the Suite of Late Wood-Block Prints (also called the Vollard Suite), woodblock print in black on ivory Japanese paper, state I/I, private collection, Houston, promised gift to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Ingenuity and Invention: Paul Gauguin’s Printing Techniques
6:30 p.m.—7:30 p.m.Harriet Stratis presents a lecture on Paul Gauguin’s experimentation with techniques and materials in print production.
14 Dec Sat / 2024
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Artist Talk | Rose B. Simpson
2 p.m.—3 p.m.Artist Rose B. Simpson discusses her multidisciplinary practice, which is rooted in her Santa Clara Pueblo heritage.
09 Jan Thu / 2025
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Celestial Conch Shell with Skulls, Huastec, Veracruz (Northern), Mexico, 900–1521, conch shell, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, museum purchase funded by James C. Flores in honor of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. at “One Great Night in November, 2007.”
Indigenous Faith Practices: Vietnamese Folk Religion
6:30 p.m.—7:30 p.m.Houston faith leaders engage in a discussion about their connections with objects and themes showcased in the exhibition Living with the Gods: Art, Beliefs, and Peoples.
12 Jan Sun / 2025
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John Robert Cozens, View of Vietri and Raito, Italy, c. 1783, watercolor over graphite on cream laid paper, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Stuart Collection, museum purchase funded by Francita Stuart Koelsch Ulmer in honor of Dena M. Woodall.
Opening Day Lecture | “Picturing Nature: The Stuart Collection of 18th- and 19th-Century British Landscapes and Beyond”
2 p.m.—3 p.m.An inside look at the exhibition which highlights the flowering of landscape painting in Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through the work of such notable artists as Richard Wilson, Thomas Gainsborough, John Robert Cozens, John Constable, and J.M.W. Turner.
